NCDPI Office of Charter Schools (OCS) Updates
Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement Conference (CCSA) Presentation Overview
The CCSA featured an
array of professional development and information sessions for educators,
policy makers, innovators and community members who had an interest in
innovative practices to improve educational outcomes for students of today and
tomorrow.
Attached below are
some of the presentations offered during the focus sessions hosted by OCS. If
you missed the sessions, you missed a treat! OCS plans to continue
offering sessions that provide information updates and other professional
development opportunities for charter schools.
Attachment: OCS Focus Session Presentations
 NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Updates
Exceptional Children's (EC) Related Services Workforce Survey
The NCDPI EC Division
is conducting a survey of existing related services resources to support
charters and districts as they recruit and retain qualified related services
staff.
The attached Excel
tool is to assist with calculating IEP hours per week on the Related Services
Workforce Survey. A few sample frequencies are included as examples. This can
be used for the individual therapist, school, or entire charter or district for
each discipline. For speech services, please include BOTH primary
and related service students in your calculations.
The survey
closes April 30, 2016. If you have any questions,
please contact Lauren Holahan at lauren_holahan@med.unc.edu or (919) 428-7201.
Attachments: Memo-Related
Services Workforce Survey 2016
Survey
Roster
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Mathematics Professional Development Opportunity - Significant Cognitive Disability
Please see the
attached regarding Significant Cognitive Disability Foundations of Math (SCDFM)
professional development opportunity. The registration deadline is April
10.
If you have any
questions, please contact Ronda Layman at ronda.layman@dpi.nc.gov or 919 807-4059.
Attachment: Significant
Cognitive Disability Foundations of Math PD
Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) - Integrated Academic and Behavior Systems
The MTSS vision cast
by NCDPI Division Directors is that “Every NC Pre K-12 public education system implements
and sustains all components of a Multi-Tiered System of Support to
ensure college and career readiness for all students”. How will this occur? The
key is to implement slowly and systematically. Successful implementation and
sustainability of this work is directly linked to the extent the state,
district and charter school leaders start slow and intentionally build a system
of support for all staff and all students. MTSS professional development
introduces the concept of R= MC2, which translates to: Readiness=Motivation x
General Capacity x Intervention-Specific Capacity.
Eight NC Charter Schools are currently involved in
the professional development and coaching of Cohorts 1 and 2.
The MTSS team is
strategically developing supports for all districts, charter schools, and
state-operated programs based on research around readiness, implementation
capacity, and sustainability so this MTSS vision can be achieved.
To learn more about
implementation capacity go to: http://nirn.fpg.unc.edu/learn-implementation, and read the article at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/report/willing-able-ready-basics-and-policy-implications-readiness-key-component-scaling-implementation-evidence-based-interventions.
We will build an MTSS
framework together!
“If you want to go fast, go
alone. If you want to go far, go together. “ - Unknown
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New Exceptional Children's (EC) District 5 Monitoring Consultant and Policy, Monitoring & Audit Program Assistant
Attached is the
announcement of Kristi Harris as the EC District 5 Monitoring Consultant and
Cynthia Padgett as the Program Assistant for the Policy, Monitoring, and Audit
section.
Attachment: New
Employee Announcement
Textbook
Evaluation Advisors Needed for Health and Social Studies
Highly motivated,
experienced teachers and instructional leaders are needed to work with the NC
Textbook Commission to review and evaluate books and materials to ensure they
align with the NC Standard Course of Study for Health and the NC Standard
Course of Study for Social Studies.
The evaluation will
take place July 18 - 22. Advisors will receive training beginning July 17 on
how to review textbooks and instructional materials using criteria developed by
NCDPI.
Interested content
area teachers must be certified in health or health/physical education or social
studies for the grade level/course for which they are assigned to evaluate
textbooks. Interested exceptional children teachers must have knowledge of the
content and work with students in these content areas. Interested ESL teachers
must be NC certified in English as a Second Language (K-12) and work with the
grade level for which they are assigned to evaluate textbooks. Areas of
vacancies in each content area are listed in the attached flyers.
Interested teachers
and instructional leaders are invited to apply by completing an interest form no
later than April 15. A candidate will need a signed letter of endorsement
on official letterhead from his/her principal/district curriculum leader.
Details about criteria for selection and the links for interest forms are in
the attached flyers. Questions may be directed to Teresa
Parker.
Attachments: Social Studies Textbook Evaluation Flyer.pdf
Health Textbook Evaluation Flyer.pdf
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Home Base Pricing for 2016 - 17
Please see the attached memo regarding Home Base pricing for districts and charter schools for the 2016 - 17 school year.
Attachment: Home
Base Pricing for 2016-17
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